Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3P

Performance Results


Gaming 49% Yacht	Desktop 74% Battleship	Workstation 40% Speed boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (65th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 35 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 69.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	66.7% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	64.6% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
Memory	16GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's more than sufficient for nearly all games. 16GB also allows for very large file and system caches, software development and batch photo editing/processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 9 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3P (all builds)
Memory	14.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 0.9 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20130806
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Mar 16 '17 at 13:02
Run Duration	140 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	0%

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PC Performing above expectations (65^th percentile)

Actual performance vs. expectations. The graphs show user score (x) vs user score frequency (y).

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD FX-8350-$130 313,196 User benchmarks, average bench 61% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 8 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	69.8% Good	Memory 91.5 1-Core 73.3 2-Core 128 62% 97.5 Pts	4-Core 261 8-Core 440 43% 350 Pts	64-Core 444 27% 444 Pts
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 69.8% Great: 68%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$195 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Device(0000 0000) ≥ 4GB CLim: 2075 MHz, MLim: 2702 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 378.49 Relative performance (0^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	66.7% Good	Lighting 57 Reflection 136 Parallax 144 46% 112 fps	MRender 124 Gravity 152 Splatting 116 106% 131 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 66.7% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Ocz-arc1 00 480GB 70 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 146GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1.01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (16^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 0 0 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 3204 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 992 (AB) Unknown 100 100 164399440 (AE) Unknown 100 100 11 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (D0) Spin buzz 100 100 43 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0 (E0) Load friction 100 100 1 (E9) Unknown 99 99 99 (F1) Unknown 100 100 1499 (F2) Unknown 100 100 2480 (F9) Unknown 100 100 57303807	64.6% Good	Read 421 Write 407 Mixed 387 90% 405 MB/s	4K Read 8.84 4K Write 8.02 4K Mixed 13.5 35% 10.1 MB/s	DQ Read 292 DQ Write 235 DQ Mixed 67.8 104% 198 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 64.6% Great: 104%
Seagate Desktop SSHD 2TB-$38 94,145 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC41 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (51^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 99 82115384 (03) Spinup time 96 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 123 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 63 60 1992610 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 421 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 62 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 69 63 538050591 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 1 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 501 (C2) HDA temperature 31 40 60129542175 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 101627516158357 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2016350339 (F2) Unknown 100 253 650564174	86.2% Excellent	Read 122 Write 177 Mixed 62.7 89% 121 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 5.41 4K Mixed 0.57 192% 2.23 MB/s
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 86.2% Great: 108%
Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB-$83 138,859 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 93GB free Firmware: 1AJ1 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (70^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 71 68 8986 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3576 (05) Reallocated sector count 252 252 0 (07) Seek error rate 252 252 0 (08) Seek timer performance 252 252 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 8338 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 7 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3467 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 46 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C2) HDA temperature 64 55 193274314783 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 252 252 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 252 252 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 252 252 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 3 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 24 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 7 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 3587	64.5% Good	Read 112 Write 113 Mixed 98.2 81% 108 MB/s	4K Read 0.5 4K Write 2.83 4K Mixed 0.43 121% 1.25 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 64.5% Great: 75%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GB 10,715 User benchmarks, average bench 46% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 933 MHz Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile)	52.6% Above average	MC Read 22.7 MC Write 15.7 MC Mixed 18.4 54% 18.9 GB/s	SC Read 11.6 SC Write 8.3 SC Mixed 13.9 32% 11.3 GB/s	Latency 65 62% 65 ns
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 52.6% Great: 54%

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Gaming 22%

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Desktop 65%

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Workstation 18%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3P - $300

CPU
FX-6300AMD $90Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	230x
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	225x
FX-8320AMD $129Bench 59%, 106,454 samples	147x

GPU
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	47x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	46x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	39x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	34x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	29x
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	27x

RAM
HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBKingstonBench 46%, 10,715 samples	43x
BLS4G3D1609DS 2x4GBCrucialBench 43%, 4,102 samples	23x
HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 2x4GBKingstonBench 41%, 7,567 samples	20x

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Value: 41% - Average

Total price: $688

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $175	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16